Construction to upgrade North Korea’s main rocket launch site now appears complete amid expectations in rival South Korea that a launch could take place in October, a U.S. research institute said Tuesday. South Korean officials are predicting the North will mark the upcoming 70th ...

Britons paused in silence, laid flowers and lit candles Tuesday to mark the 10th anniversary of suicide bombings on London’s transit system in the worst terror attack on British soil and a day of pain seared into London’s collective memory. Four British men inspired ...

Tens of thousands of people lit candles in Hong Kong’s Victoria Park on Thursday night to mark the 26th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre in which a student-led pro-democracy demonstration ended in bloodshed. The Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements, ...

As Japan marked the fourth anniversary of the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami that devastated parts of the Tohoku region, relatives and friends of those killed in the disaster gathered to offer prayers for the victims. Many people gathered early Wednesday to pray in ...

A Jewish leader stood before 300 survivors of the Nazis’ most notorious death camp on Tuesday and asked world leaders to prevent another Auschwitz, warning of a rise of anti-Semitism that has made many Jews fearful of walking the streets, and is causing many ...

The voices of Auschwitz survivors praying for their murdered loved ones reverberated Monday amid the barracks and barbed wire of the former Nazi death camp, with one survivor crying out in a pained voice: “I don’t want to come here anymore!” The survivors were ...

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is promoting Japan as a postwar peace-builder as he tests the waters for a statement marking the 70th anniversary of its World War II defeat that risks irritating China and South Korea. Japan has taken an “unwavering path” of peace ...

The British Parliament is marking 800 years since the signing of Magna Carta, the document that asserted the principle that the country’s ruler is subject to the law, with an exhibition highlighting the expansion of rights down the centuries. The display in Westminster Hall, ...

A crowd of nearly 14,000 gathered at a park early Saturday to light candles in remembrance of those who died. As incense wafted through the air, the dark, chilly morning was pierced by a moment of silence at exactly 5:46 a.m. “I lost my ...

Emperor Akihito released his “New Year Thoughts” on Thursday, issuing a call to learn from history in the year that marks the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II. “I think it is most important for us to take this opportunity to ...

Back in 1964, when the lay Buddhist organization Soka Gakkai founded Komeito, many people looked on warily: They believed it violated the Constitution’s separation of religion and politics. But in the week Komeito marked its 50th anniversary, observers say the party has successfully diluted ...

Officials and residents of an island south of Tokyo gathered Thursday to mourn the victims of mud slides that left 39 residents dead and missing a year ago. Typhoon Wipha hit Izu-Oshima Island on Oct. 16, 2013, triggering flash floods that ripped through town ...